That’s why sensible people give them a ladder or a sloping lattice to climb onto the roof of the garden shed. Not suitable for conventional watermelons or the biiiiig pumpkins – but fantastic for butternuts and similar sized sweet melons.

Sorry, but there’s something about tendrils that always creeps me out a little. It’s the way they grab on to things, I guess. Sort of breeching the line between plant and animal. Perhaps that’s the deep psychological meaning to what I do with pumpkins!